According to The Wall Street Journal, Sprint will offer Apple’s iPhone come this October. Currently, the iPhone is only available on AT&T and Verizon. An AT&T/T-Mobile merger is currently in the process of being approved by the FCC, so that leaves Sprint as the lonely, iPhone-less kid in the corner.
According to a new report, Sprint will soon be able to share in Apple’s ‘magical’ smartphone when the iPhone 5 is launched in October.
Sprint’s shares have already gone up on Wall Street:
“Like a gift from Heaven (or Steve Jobs), shares of battered Sprint are soaring on news Sprint may soon sell the iPhone.”
WSJ:
“Sprint Nextel Corp. will begin selling the iPhone 5 in mid-October, people familiar with the matter said, closing a huge hole in the No. 3 U.S. carrier’s lineup and giving Apple Inc. another channel for selling its popular phone.
The timing, however, indicates Apple’s new iPhone will hit the market later than expected and too late to contribute to sales in the company’s fiscal fourth quarter, which ends in September. Most observers had expected the device to arrive next month.”
It’s also expected that the iPhone 4 will sell alongside the iPhone 5 on Sprint’s network this Fall. Sprint is built on CDMA technology, and it’s also been reported that Apple’s next iPhone will be a ‘world phone’ capable of running on both GSM and CDMA networks.
Who’s ready for the iPhone on Sprint?
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27 responses to “Sprint to Offer the iPhone 5 this October [Rumor]”
only if it comes with unlimited data plan, would put Sprint over the top…no?
I so hope this is true!
Good for them. Sprint needs something to stave off the Duopoly and prevent bankruptcy.
Doubtful.. Their service is worse than AT&T where I live.
Doubtful.. Their service is worse than AT&T where I live.
where i live its not that bad
I just paíd $20.82 for an íPad 2.64GB and my boyfriend loves his Panasoníc Lumíx GF 1 Cámera that we got for $38.79 there arriving tomorrow by UP S.I will never pay such expensive retail príces in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LCD T V to my boss for $657 which only cost me $62.81 to buy.
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I just paíd $20.87 for an íPad 2.64GB and my boyfriend loves his Panasoníc Lumíx GF 1 Cámera that we got for $38.79 there arriving tomorrow by UP S.I will never pay such expensive retail príces in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LCD T V to my boss for $657 which only cost me $62.81 to buy.
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Where I live it’s the only one that gets service, and where the other’s do it’s better.
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same here. i’m actually happy with sprint.
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got an iPa d 2 (32GB) for $ 23.87 and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumi x GF 1 Camera that we got for $ 38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 657 which only cost me $ 62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, http://x.co/ZE7O
I just p a i d $21.87 for an i P a d 2-64GB and my boyfriend loves his Panasonîc Lumîx GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS.I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $657 which only cost me $62.81 to buy.
Here is the website we use to get it all from, http://BídsFírst.Com
With Sprint’s headquarters being here in the middle of the country, they have blanket 3G coverage here while AT&T and Verizon either have nothing or just little tiny polkadots of 3G coverage. I will gladly dump AT&T the instant the iPhone becomes available on Sprint!